Patents Issued in November 14, 2017
  • Patent number: 9816013
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a carbon nanotube conductive ball and a method for preparing a carbon nanotube ball conductive adhesive. The method for preparing the carbon nanotube conductive ball integrates the advantages of stability of polymer microsphere and SiO2 microsphere, and high conductivity of carbon nanotube, by applying polymer microsphere or SiO2 microsphere as matrix, and plating carbon nanotube material to obtain the spherical carbon nanotube conductive ball. The method is simple, low equipment requirements, abundant raw materials, low cost, and high efficiency, the particle size of the carbon nanotube conductive ball is controllable, the material stability and conductivity of the carbon nanotube conductive ball are excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xia Zhang, Yungjui Lee, Tao Hu
  • Patent number: 9816014
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot melt adhesive suitable for use in disposable products, which can be applied at a high speed and provides excellent in adhesion in a wet state and low-temperature coating, with little odor. The hot melt adhesive for disposable products comprises: (A) a propylene homopolymer having a melting point of 100° C. or lower obtained by polymerizing propylene using a metallocene catalyst; and (B) a wax modified with carboxylic acid and/or carboxylic acid anhydride. The wet adhesion of the hot melt adhesive is improved when the wax is modified with maleic acid and/or maleic anhydride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Masahiro Moriguchi, Shigekazu Saito, Kentarou Inoue, Takanori Okuda, Naohiro Maeda
  • Patent number: 9816015
    Abstract: The present invention is related to adhesive composition, having a polymer blend comprising a first propylene-based polymer, wherein the first propylene-based polymer is a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene or a C4 to C10 alpha-olefin, and a second propylene-based polymer, wherein the second propylene-based polymer is a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene and ethylene or a C4 to C10 alpha-olefin; wherein the second propylene-based polymer is different than the first propylene-based polymer; wherein the polymer blend has a melt viscosity, measured at 190° C. and determined according to ASTM D-3236, of about 1,000 cP to about 5,000 cP; a propylene polymer; and wherein the adhesive composition is substantially free of a functionalized polyolefin, wherein the functionalized polyolefin is selected from at least one of a maleic anhydride-modified polypropylene and a maleic anhydride-modified polypropylene wax.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Kalfus, Jurgen Schroeyers, Jennifer J. Austin, James N. Coffey, Jean-Roch Schauder
  • Patent number: 9816016
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display. In the present invention, provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive which can effectively prevent the light leakage resulting from dimensional changes of the polarizing plate, and the like, and exhibit excellent endurance reliability even when it is used or stored for a long time. Further, in the present invention, provided is the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition or the pressure-sensitive adhesive which can exhibit excellent physical properties, such as removability, workability, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Soo Yoon, No-Ma Kim, In Ho Hwang, Jeong Min Ha, In Kyu Park, Min Ki Lee
  • Patent number: 9816017
    Abstract: Anaerobic curing formulations for sealing and/or blocking screws, nuts, bolts and screw or sealing caps are described. The sealing formulation comprises at least one acrylic resin and phenoxy-polyethoxy sulphate. The self-locking formulation comprises at least one diacrylate, an acrylic resin, a microencapsulated polymerisation initiator and a microencapsulated polymerisation accelerator. A method is described for coating a polymerization accelerator to obtain a microencapsulated polymerisation accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TECNOLOGIC 3 S.R.L.
    Inventors: Gaspare Aita, Antonio Calasso, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9816018
    Abstract: A polyurethane glass sealant is made by reacting a poly(1,2-butylene oxide) polymer with a chain extender and a polyisocyanate. The poly(1,2-butylene oxide) polymer may be used as a mixture with up to 50% by weight of other polyols, including castor oil. The sealant is especially useful as a secondary sealant for an insulated glass unit (IGU).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bindu Krishnan, Laura A. Grier
  • Patent number: 9816019
    Abstract: The invention provides protein adhesives and methods of making and using such adhesives. The protein adhesives contain ground plant meal or an isolated polypeptide composition obtained from plant biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: EVERTREE
    Inventors: Anthony A. Parker, Joseph J. Marcinko
  • Patent number: 9816020
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sintered shaped abrasive grains on basis of aluminum oxide. Sintered shaped abrasive grains consistent with the disclosure include mineralogical phases made of mullite, tialite and/or armalcolite, and baddeleyite and/or srilankite. Methods for producing sintered shaped abrasive grains using alumina, ilmenite and zircon sand as raw materials are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Center for Abrasives and Refractories Research and Development C.A.R.R.D. GmbH
    Inventors: Jean-Andre Alary, Alexander Hirsch
  • Patent number: 9816021
    Abstract: An antifreeze member includes a metal substrate, and a first coating layer including a recombinant antifreeze protein in which a metal-binding protein is conjugated to a performance-enhancing reformed antifreeze protein, and being bonded to the metal substrate via the metal-binding protein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY (IUCF-HYU)
    Inventors: Hong Suk Kim, Myong Jong Kwon, Seung Jin Oh, Yunho Gwak, Young-Pil Kim, Ji-In Park, EonSeon Jin
  • Patent number: 9816022
    Abstract: Ampholyte polymeric compound that comprises at least one nonionic monomer, at least one sulfonic acid-containing monomer, and at least one cationic monomer may be useful in viscosifying treatment fluids for use in subterranean operations at a concentration of about 0.5 v/v % to about 30 v/v % of the treatment fluid. Such operations may involve introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation optionally at a pressure sufficient to create or extend at least one fracture in the subterranean formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: HsinChen Chung, Yuntao Thomas Hu, Xiangnan Ye, Narongsak Tonmukayakul, Michael A. McCabe, Kevin Walter Frederick, Shih-Ruey Tom Chen, Randy Jack Loeffler
  • Patent number: 9816023
    Abstract: A subterranean ground heat exchange system, a method of installation, and a grout composition therefor. The grout composition is a pumpable slurry formed of from about 70 to about 85 parts by weight natural flake graphite and from about 30 to about 15 parts by weight bentonite. The solids content of the pumpable grout slurry is preferably at least 35% by weight and is more preferably at least 40% by weight. The ground exchange apparatus preferably utilizes an improved supply and return header comprised of supply and return ports which are provided through the vertically extending outer wall of a header housing. The header also includes an interior supply conduit which extends from the supply port into the interior of the header housing and includes a bend positioned in the interior of the housing for directing the heat transfer fluid downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rygan Corp
    Inventors: Lane Lawless, Michael Fraim, Brandon A. Larson
  • Patent number: 9816024
    Abstract: An aminoalkyl imidazolines of the formula: having p-octyloxy-, p-dodecyloxy-, or p-octadecyloxy-phenyl pendants as hydrophobes, for use to mitigate mild steel corrosion. An electron-rich aromatic ring, in conjugation with an amidine motif, imparts increasing corrosion inhibition efficiencies with an increasing hydrophobe chain length. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirms the formation of an aminoalkyl imidazoline film on a metal surface prior to reaching a critical molar concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Pertoleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Mohammad Abu Jafar Mazumder, Shaikh Asrof Ali, Hasan Ali Al-Muallem
  • Patent number: 9816025
    Abstract: Disclosed are treating fluid compositions for use in subterranean workover and hydrocarbon recovery operations, as well as methods of treating subterranean formations penetrated by a wellbore utilizing the treating fluid. The treating fluid compositions contain a first, aqueous liquid, and a crosslinkable organic polymer that is at least partly soluble in the liquid. The treating fluid further contains a borate crosslinking agent solution containing a primary, un-refined borate and a secondary, refined borate, the borate solution being present as a crosslinking agent upon addition to the first fluid admixture so as to crosslink the organic polymer and increase the viscosity and/or accelerate the crosslink time of the treating fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: TUCC Technology, LLC
    Inventors: James W. Dobson, Jr., Kimberly A. Pierce
  • Patent number: 9816026
    Abstract: A method of extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation comprises introducing a solution comprising a silicon-containing compound into the subterranean formation. The silicon-containing compound may comprise a terminal group comprising one of an alkanoate group, a fluoroalkanoate group, and a perfluoroalkanoate group, and one or more of an alkoxy group and a chlorine atom bonded to a silicon atom. The method comprises attaching the silicon-containing compound to one or more of formation surfaces of the subterranean formation to form an oleophilic surface on the one or more of the formation surfaces and the surfaces of proppant particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, LLC
    Inventors: Oleg A. Mazyar, Valery N. Khabashesku, Oleksandr V. Kuznetsov, Michael H. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9816027
    Abstract: A method for producing a film having luminescent particles is described. The method has steps a) mixing a thermoplastic and a luminescent pigment containing a hydroxyalkyl terephthalate of the formulate: R1—COO—P(OH)x-COO—R2 and obtaining a thermoplastic mixture; and b) homogenizing the thermoplastic mixture to 150° C. to 200° C. in an extruder, by way of an extrusion nozzle, and obtaining a thermoplastic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Labrot, Monique Elmer, Jean Sablayrolles, Frederic Clabau
  • Patent number: 9816028
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a rapid process for the preparation of gadolinium oxysulfide having a general formula of Gd2O2S, referred to as GOS, scintillation ceramics by using the combination of spark plasma primary sintering (SPS) and hot isostatic pressing secondary sintering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, Nuctech Company Limited
    Inventors: Yanchun Wang, Qingjun Zhang, Yuanjing Li, Zhiqiang Chen, Ziran Zhao, Yinong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Jianping Chang, Shuqing Zhao, Wenjian Zhang, Yongqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 9816029
    Abstract: An organic amine decarbonization solution includes: i) one or more organic amines serving as a carbon dioxide absorbent; and ii) an antioxidant. The antioxidant includes: a) one or more organometallic complexes of Formula [Mx(L)y]An, wherein each M independently represents a central atom selected from the group consisting of transition metals, Group IVA metals and Group VA metals at a lower valence state; each L independently represents a bidentate or multidentate organic ligand with each ligating atom thereof being independently one of O, S, N and P; each A independently represents an uncoordinated counter-ion suitable for forming an outer sphere of a complex; x is 1, 2 or 3; y is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8; and n is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; and b) optionally one or more metal chelating agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NANJING CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL GROUP
    Inventors: Songbai Mao, Zhongbin Huang
  • Patent number: 9816030
    Abstract: The present invention provides a soil heavy metal curing agent for controlling accumulation of heavy metals of crops and its preparation method. The curing agent is made from the following parts of raw materials by weight: 60˜140 parts of substance containing carbon-carbon double bond; 1˜400 parts of sulfo-compound by sulfur; 50˜500 parts of organic matter by 10% water content; 0˜400 parts of water; 0˜100 parts of an initiator; 0˜200 parts of a reducer; and 0˜200 parts of a strong base. The curing agent for heavy metals in the soil according to the present invention can reduce the cadmium, lead and mercury content in the soil and further greatly reduce the roots' absorption of these heavy metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CHINA NATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Guosheng Shao, Xihong Shen, Liyong Cao, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 9816031
    Abstract: A substrate having thereon a marking or layer comprising a cured chiral liquid crystal precursor composition which comprises at least one salt that changes the position of a selective reflection band exhibited by the cured composition compared to the position of a selective reflection band exhibited by a cured composition that does not contain the at least one salt. A modifying resin made from one or more polymerizable monomers is disposed between the substrate and the marking or layer and changes the position of the selective reflection band exhibited by the cured precursor composition comprising the at least one salt on the substrate in the one or more areas. This abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Andrea Callegari, Tristan Jauzein
  • Patent number: 9816032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment agent which provides a polymer composition (A), a solvent (B), and a poly(oxyalkyleneglycol)dialkylether compound (C); wherein the number average molecular weight of the poly(oxyalkyleneglycol)dialkylether compound (C) is from 250 to 2000. The invention also provides a liquid crystal alignment film made by the liquid crystal alignment agent as mentioned above and a liquid crystal display element which provides the liquid crystal alignment film, and the liquid crystal display element has high voltage holding rate and low ion density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CHI MEI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Li-Tao Hsu
  • Patent number: 9816033
    Abstract: Clean, safe and efficient methods, systems, and processes for utilizing thermolysis methods to processes to convert various carpet, rug, polymeric materials and other waste sources, such as solid waste, tires, manure, auto shredder residue, glass and carbon fiber composite materials, municipal solid wastes, medical wastes, waste wood and the like into a Clean Fuel Gas and Char source are disclosed. The invention processes the carpet, rug, polymeric material to effectively shred and/or grind the waste source, such as post-consumer carpet remnants and waste, and then process using thermolysis methods to destroy and/or separate halogen and other dangerous components to provide a Clean Fuel Gas and Char source. Additional waste sources, such as solid waste, tires, manure, auto shredder residue, glass and carbon fiber composite materials, municipal solid wastes, medical wastes, waste wood and the like, are suitable for the processing of the invention disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CHZ Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Henry W. Brandhorst, Jr., Ullrich H. Engel, Charles T. Ludwig, Ernest J. Zavoral, Sr.
  • Patent number: 9816034
    Abstract: A method of forming a hydrocarbon product, the method comprising a first step of enriching a carrier liquid with carbon monoxide and hydrogen and a subsequent step of bringing the enriched carrier liquid into contact with a catalyst in a first reaction zone of a reactor, wherein the catalyst catalyzes reaction of the carbon monoxide and hydrogen to form the hydrocarbon product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PROCESS SYSTEMS ENTREPRISE LIMITED
    Inventor: Zbigniew Boguslaw Urban
  • Patent number: 9816035
    Abstract: A process and system for producing a synthetic hydrocarbon having a desired H/C ratio is disclosed. Organic material is biochemically digested in a two stage biodigester for separately producing a hydrogen containing biogas substantially free of methane in a first stage and a methane containing biogas in a second stage. The methane containing biogas is reformed in a first reformer to generate hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide gas, which are then combined in a mixer with the hydrogen containing biogas into a syngas in amounts to achieve in the syngas an overall H/C ratio substantially equal to the desired H/C ratio. The syngas is reacted with a catalyst in a second reformer, a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor, to produce the hydrocarbon. Using a two stage biodigester allows for the generation of separate hydrogen and methane streams, a more economical generation of the FT syngas and reduced fouling of the FT catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: GreenField Specialty Alcohols Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Romeo Lehoux, Hisham Mohamed Hafez, Ranjit Sehdev, Dave Salt
  • Patent number: 9816036
    Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a process for fluid catalytic cracking. The process can include sending a first catalyst from a first riser reactor and a second catalyst from a second riser reactor to a regeneration vessel having a first stage and a second stage. The first catalyst may be sent to the first stage and the second catalyst may be sent to the second stage of the regeneration vessel. Generally, the first stage is positioned above the second stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Paolo Palmas
  • Patent number: 9816037
    Abstract: A method is provided for increasing production of middle distillate hydrocarbons from conversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feed in a fluid catalytic cracking system having a primary riser and a secondary riser, wherein the method comprises providing regenerated catalyst to the primary riser and operating the primary riser under severe conditions and providing spent catalyst to the secondary riser and operating the secondary riser under moderate conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventor: Fariha Avais
  • Patent number: 9816038
    Abstract: A process is presented for the production of high quality kerosene from lower quality feedstocks, including kerosene produced from coker units, or kerosene from cracking units. The process includes hydrotreating the feedstock to remove contaminants in the feedstock. The hydrotreated process stream is then treated in a trim reactor at higher pressure to reduce the bromine index of the kerosene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: Soumendra M. Banerjee, Peter Kokayeff, David A. Lindsay, Yoga R. Ayar
  • Patent number: 9816039
    Abstract: A heavy petroleum oil feed is upgraded by having its amenability to cracking improved by subjecting the oil to selective partial oxidation with a catalytic oxidation system to partially oxidize aromatic ring systems in the heavy oil. The partially oxidized oil can then be cracked in the conventional manner but at lower severities to lower molecular weight cracking products. The cracking following the partial oxidation step may be thermal in nature as by thermal cracking, delayed, contact or fluid coking or fluid catalytic cracking or hydrogenative as in hydrocracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Manuel A. Francisco, Thomas Francis Degnan, Jr., Colin L. Beswick, Ramanathan Sundararaman
  • Patent number: 9816040
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to novel biomass pyrolysis processes and systems that decrease entrainment of char and other contaminants with the pyrolysis vapors as a direct consequence of the biomass feedstock comprising particles that are larger than a defined minimum diameter. The biomass feedstock may optionally be compressed to form feedstock pellets that are larger than a defined minimum diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Phillips 66 Company
    Inventors: Daren E. Daugaard, Samuel T. Jones, Johnathan T. Gorke
  • Patent number: 9816041
    Abstract: Describe are preferred formulations for Avgas meeting the requirements for use in aircraft, including requirements established under ASTM standards and by the Federal Aviation Administration. In one embodiment, a binary mixture of 1,3,5-trimethyl benzene (mesitylene) and isopentane is used to provide a MON of at least 100, and more preferably at least 102. In other embodiments, the amounts of mesitylene and/or isopentane may be changed, and other fuel components are included. These various Avgas formulations are thereby adjusted to meet a variety of requirements as to octane rating, RVP, cold start, and other fuel characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Swift Fuels, LLC
    Inventor: Chris D'Acosta
  • Patent number: 9816042
    Abstract: Motor fuel compositions containing ethanol, also known as gasohol, are disclosed, wherein the motor fuel is substantially in one phase and contains, 1 to 50, preferable 2 to 30 weight % of ethanol and an amount of water between 1 and 10 wt. % on the basis of the weight of the ethanol. Such motor fuel compositions can be produced by blending gasoline with hydrous ethanol, thus evading the necessity to use anhydrous ethanol as feedstock. Furthermore such motor fuel compositions may be produced by blending gasoline with hydrous ethanol and anhydrous ethanol, thus evading the necessity to use anhydrous ethanol as the sole feedstock. These motor fuel compositions may contain a second liquid phase that does not form a separate layer, and where no separate liquid phase can be detected by vision, and so meets with the specification that has become known as “clear and bright”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SHE BLENDS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Maria Franciscus Sijben
  • Patent number: 9816043
    Abstract: Acyclic monterpene alcohols, like linalool, to be converted through a series of highly efficient catalytic reactions a biogasoline blending component, and a drop-in biodiesel fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Michael E. Wright, Roxanne L. Quintana, Benjamin G. Harvey
  • Patent number: 9816044
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes transmission fluid compositions, additive packages, and methods for lubricating a transmission, particularly transmission fluid compositions having color stability that are able to meet or exceed vehicle transmission fluid specifications for different makes of vehicles. The transmission fluid composition contains a base oil and an additive composition having at least one thiadiazole compound the selected from compounds of the Formulas (I)-(II): wherein n is 1-5; R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group having 1-100 carbon atoms; and R2 is a hydrogen or is a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group having 1-100 carbon atoms, wherein the transmission fluid composition is adapted for use in a transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: AFTON CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Lisa K. Thalen
  • Patent number: 9816045
    Abstract: An automotive engine oil and/or fuel comprising a base stock and an organic polymeric friction reducing additive is claimed. A method of reducing friction in an automotive engine oil and/or fuel by the addition of the organic polymeric friction reducing additive to the base stock is also claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC
    Inventors: Lee Thompson, Steven James Randles, Stephen Boyde, John Gamwell, Nicola Readman
  • Patent number: 9816046
    Abstract: This invention discloses new krill oil compositions characterized by having high amounts of phospholipids, astaxanthin esters and/or omega-3 contents. The krill oils are obtained from krill meal using supercritical fluid extraction in a two stage process. Stage 1 removes the neutral lipid by extracting with neat supercritical CO2 or CO2 plus approximately 5% of a co-solvent. Stage 2 extracts the actual krill oils by using supercritical CO2 in combination with approximately 20% ethanol. The krill oil materials obtained are compared with commercially available krill oil and found to be more bioeffective in a number of areas such as anti-inflammation, anti-oxidant effects, improving insulin resistances and improving blood lipid profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: AKER BIOMARINE ANTARCTIC AS
    Inventors: Inge Bruheim, Snorre Tilseth, Daniele Mancinelli
  • Patent number: 9816047
    Abstract: The invention relates to method for deacidification of fats and oils comprising: feeding stream (1) to a stripping section; condensing the volatile phase in a high temperature condensing zone, sending the condensed phase to distillation A; distillating the condensed phase, obtaining a volatile stream; passing the volatile stream along with the vapor phase from the condensation zone to a cold condensation zone obtaining a condensate and a stream (4); allowing stream (4) to continue to vacuum system and subjecting the cold condensate to distillation B; and producing a stream of fatty acids (5) and a stream of micronutrients (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Bent Sarup
  • Patent number: 9816048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel compound and its use as a fragrance material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC.
    Inventors: Paul D Jones, Edward Mark Arruda, Anthony T Levorse, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9816049
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a composition containing a fragrance and a porous cyclodextrin-based metal organic framework (CD-MOF). The CD-MOF includes at least a metal cation and a plurality of cyclodextrin molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PanaceaNano, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjie N. Limketkai, Youssry Y. Botros
  • Patent number: 9816050
    Abstract: A demulsifying composition is disclosed for aiding extraction of an emulsified oil from an oil and water emulsion. The composition includes one or more non-ionic surfactants having a HLB value of 6 or greater, wherein the non-ionic surfactant is selected from the group consisting of alkoxylated plant oils, alkoxylated plant fats, alkoxylated animal oils, alkoxylated animal fats, alkyl polyglucosides, alkoxylated glycerols, and mixtures thereof. The composition may include silicon containing particles. A method for recovering oil from a corn to ethanol process is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of adding the composition to a process stream of the corn to ethanol process, and extracting oil from the process stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventors: Dean Blankenburg, Scott Cumming, Frank Zouras, John Vassh
  • Patent number: 9816051
    Abstract: A self-metathesis process for the production of unsaturated dicarboxylic fatty diacids and/or unsaturated dicarboxylic fatty diesters, wherein unsaturated carboxylic fatty acids and/or esters of unsaturated carboxylic fatty acids are reacted in the presence of at least one defined ruthenium based catalyst compound. A catalyst enhancer compound selected from a sacrificial catalyst or a non-catalyst enhancer may also be used. The process exhibits improved reaction times and/or the catalyst can be used at very low concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Croda International PLC
    Inventors: Bastiaan Wels, Hans Ridderikhoff, Tanja Van Bergen-Brenkman, Dessy Liminto
  • Patent number: 9816052
    Abstract: Candle products may be made from a fuel source that contains a high oleic vegetable oil and a gelling agent. The high oleic vegetable oil may contain by weight percentage a fatty acid content of free fatty acids and/or fatty acids bound in triglyceride form, of: greater than 50% and less than about 99% of C18:1; and a combined C18:2 and C18:3 content of less than about 30%. Useful gelling agents may include fatty alcohols, fatty acids, dicarboxylic acids and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Candle-Lite Company, LLC
    Inventor: Russell A. Grimm
  • Patent number: 9816053
    Abstract: A wooden wick comprising a strip of wood. Such wick further includes a wood booster member connected to the strip of wood. At least the strip of wood or the booster member comprises a grain, wherein the grain is figured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: Melynda S DelCotto
  • Patent number: 9816054
    Abstract: The invention provides surfactant compounds of formulas I-IX, which can be used in methods for aiding the solubilization, digestion, preparation, analysis, and/or characterization of biological material, for example, proteins or cell membranes. The compounds can also aid in the recovery of peptides generated during protein digestion, particularly for in-gel digestion protocol. Additionally, the compounds can improve enzymatic protein deglycosylation without interfering with downstream sample preparation steps and mass spectrometric analysis. The compounds can be specifically useful as digestion aids that can be decomposed by an acid, by heat, or a combination thereof. Decomposition of the surfactants allows for facile separation from isolated samples, and/or allows for analysis of the sample without interfering with the sensitivity of various analytical techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: PROMEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sergei Saveliev, Daniel Simpson, Keith V. Wood, Harry Tetsuo Uyeda, Carolyn Woodroofe Hitko, Dieter Klaubert
  • Patent number: 9816055
    Abstract: Systems, methods, etc., directed to removing or modifying pink-stain in a substrate. For example, removal of pink-stains caused by Streptoverticillium reticulum in marine vinyl, or to enhance the speed, specificity, and efficacy of other bleaching processes of autofluorescent organic stains in those and other substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Gestalt Scientific Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Robert Leatham, Scott Anthony Laster, Heinz-Gunter Manfred Zieber
  • Patent number: 9816056
    Abstract: A process for associating a scent with a laundry article including the steps of: providing a fluid pervious substrate carrying a perfume on, within, or at least partially enclosed by the substrate; placing the substrate in proximity to a partially saturated laundry article within a container or pile; transferring the laundry article and the substrate from the container or the pile into a washing machine; and washing the laundry article together with the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gayle Marie Frankenbach, Helen Frances O'Connor, Michael David Sanders, Judith Ann Hollingshead, David Anthony Bailey
  • Patent number: 9816057
    Abstract: A nonflammable solvent composition, a method of cleaning a surface, and a method of coating a substrate with a material using the solvent composition are provided. The nonflammable solvent composition includes about 70 wt. % or more of trans-1,2-dichloroethylene (t-DCE) and about 0.1 to about 30 wt. % of one or more of hydrofluoroether (HFE) and n-propyl bromide. The method of cleaning a surface includes applying the solvent composition to the surface and spreading or rubbing the composition on the surface. The method of coating a substrate with a material includes dissolving one or more material in the solvent composition, applying the solvent composition containing the one or more material to a substrate, and evaporating the solvent composition from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: EDO SHELLEF
    Inventor: Edo Shellef
  • Patent number: 9816058
    Abstract: In one aspect, 3D printing systems for fabricating 3D soap objects are described herein. Such systems can form 3D soap objects from a particulate material and a fluid binder material based on design data, such as digital design data. In some cases, a 3D printing system comprises a build chamber comprising a build bed, a particulate material distribution device, and a fluid binder material dispenser. The particulate material distribution device can be configured to distribute successive layers of the particulate material on the build bed. The fluid binder material dispenser can be configured to selectively apply the fluid binder material to portions of the successive layers of particulate material in an amount sufficient to consolidate the portions to define cross-sectional portions of the object. In addition, the particulate material comprises a soap component in an amount of about 10 to 100% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: 3D Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Roxanne Rives
  • Patent number: 9816059
    Abstract: A capsule composition containing a capsule and a stabilizing agent. The capsule has an oil core containing an active material and a capsule wall encapsulating the oil core. The active material is a fragrance, a flavor, a malodor counteractant, or a combination thereof. The wall is formed of polyurea or polyurethane. The capsule composition has 20 ppm or greater of the stabilizing agent, which is a multi-functional amine, an amino acid, a polymer mixture, or a combination thereof. Also disclosed is a consumer product containing this capsule composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES
    Inventors: Volkert de Villeneuve, Djurre Sijbren Postma, Elizabeth Geertruida Maria Brundel, John Brahms, Li Xu, Joan G. L. Pluter, Laura French, Yabin Lei, Lewis Michael Popplewell, Xiao Huang
  • Patent number: 9816060
    Abstract: A composition which effervesces when added to water, comprises diamond particles with a median equivalent volumetric diameter (Dv50) of less than 40 ?m. The compositions are useful as cleaning compositions, particularly for cleaning diamonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: DF&G LTD
    Inventor: Andrew Coxon
  • Patent number: 9816061
    Abstract: In a method for treating a hop product exhibiting a moisture in excess of 18% GG water content, the hop product is sterilized in an airtight container, and stored in an airtight packaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Inventor: Martin Schmailzl
  • Patent number: 9816062
    Abstract: A method and lauter tun for lautering wort includes a fluid gaseous medium introduced as a false bottom seal below a false bottom-of the lauter tun prior to lautering of the wort through the false bottom. The mash is transferred into the lauter tun above the false bottom after introduction of the false bottom seal. Wort running off in the lauter tun through the false bottom displaces the false bottom seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: GEA BREWERY SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Patrick Bahns, Matthias Gerner